Pass. Already have iWork and it's fine for what I do on phone and tablet.

If my Mac Office Pro 2011 dual license can't qualify me for even a trial, $@%& MS, why would anyone subscribe to Office 365 just to get this?

MS is either not very serious about iOS users or losing their mind. Office becomes ever less relevant, Excel is the only compelling app any more and who does heavy data work on a mobile?

They'd subscribe because Office is the standard office suite found in most businesses. It makes things easier when YOU are using the same application to generate reports, proposals, and so on as your coworkers and clients.

Oh great. Now MS is justifying the senseless need for our execs to get iEverything.

Edit: I'm not hating on Apple. I'm hating on the type of mind that refers to the Surface Pro as "Microsoft's iPad" and then wants to roll actual iPads out to everyone and their brother even though we don't have any business applications that will run on them and a two-man IT crew that has no time to implement any.

1) Does it support Word's change-tracking features?2) In-line equations? Do they work? Don't necessarily care about editing them, but are existing equations in a document rendered reasonably accurately?

Too bad about the lack of an iPad version; honestly, that's much more interesting to me.

No iPad support which is arguably the largest use case scenario.You have to subscribe to Office 365.You can't just buy it in the app store.

I honestly can't come up with a way they could have fucked this up any more. I guess they really didn't want to pay 1/3 of their sales to Apple. Of coure 100% of what they'll make now will pale in comparison to 2/3 of what they could have made if they'd done it right.

No iPad support which is arguably the largest use case scenario.You have to subscribe to Office 365.You can't just buy it in the app store.

I honestly can't come up with a way they could have fucked this up any more. I guess they really didn't want to pay 1/3 of their sales to Apple. Of coure 100% of what they'll make now will pale in comparison to 2/3 of what they could have made if they'd done it right.

Actually MS will not get 100% of the subs from the in app purchase. MS is giving Apple a cut of all NEW subs obtained through the app just like all devs that offer in app purchases.

I have to agree on no iPad support being a miss... but not surprised it only works with Office365... O365 is clearly the strategic direction for Microsoft, I am sure they would like to get rid of the licensed versions and go all subscription... as soon as they get enough customers on O365 they will drop the other licensing... Gartner wrote a paper saying Microsoft is offering companies sweetheart deals on O365 (undercutting Google Apps) trying to build adoption.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. I'd be more worried about iCloud becoming less useful with the addition of SkyDrive integrated into Office. The more Microsoft can push SkyDrive everywhere, the less useful Apple's specialized, only-in-our-ecosystem, competing products look like inferior products.

Other than iPhone backup and iTunes music/video/picture sync, why use iCloud when SkyDrive can be used at work, home, on Android, Windows Phone and your iDevices? When does Apple's walled garden approach begin to backfire? Is Microsoft really being the more, dare I say most, open platform from a closed source vendor these days?

Add Skype to the mix and doesn't Facetime take a hit when the Xbox One is released with native support? How does Facetime persist in the face of an iDevice integrated experience that works with millions of Xbox One's, hundreds of millions of PCs, Windows Phone, Android and iDevices?

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. I'd be more worried about iCloud becoming less useful with the addition of SkyDrive integrated into Office. The more Microsoft can push SkyDrive everywhere, the less useful Apple's specialized, only-in-our-ecosystem, competing products look like inferior products.

Oh great. Now MS is justifying the senseless need for our execs to get iEverything.

Edit: I'm not hating on Apple. I'm hating on the type of mind that refers to the Surface Pro as "Microsoft's iPad" and then wants to roll actual iPads out to everyone and their brother even though we don't have any business applications that will run on them and a two-man IT crew that has no time to implement any.

I understand your problems reigning in executive expectations. However, the Surface RT is microsofts iPad (even if it is largely unsuccessful) and you would have the same challenges deploying them in the field. Maybe more since Apple has a well refined set of enterprise deployment tools and I don't believe any of the MS tools support the RT.

Why do I ignore the Pro? Because users are primarily using the pro as an ultra book. I doubt your executives would consider it as an ipad alternative.

Can't believe all the comments who are surprised that this app has such limitations.

They have released an app which does the absolute minimum so they can say "we have Office on iOS" while still retaining that Windows (Phone / Tablet / PC) is still the best place to get work done so they haven't killed off sales of their own products

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. I'd be more worried about iCloud becoming less useful with the addition of SkyDrive integrated into Office. The more Microsoft can push SkyDrive everywhere, the less useful Apple's specialized, only-in-our-ecosystem, competing products look like inferior products.

Other than iPhone backup and iTunes music/video/picture sync, why use iCloud when SkyDrive can be used at work, home, on Android, Windows Phone and your iDevices? When does Apple's walled garden approach begin to backfire? Is Microsoft really being the more, dare I say most, open platform from a closed source vendor these days?

Add Skype to the mix and doesn't Facetime take a hit when the Xbox One is released with native support? How does Facetime persist in the face of an iDevice integrated experience that works with millions of Xbox One's, hundreds of millions of PCs, Windows Phone, Android and iDevices?

If MS can make Skype work out of the box with my phone number and no other configuration, I think you will be on to something.